Jodie Foster has married photographer Alexandra Hedison, a representative for the Oscar-winning actress confirmed on April 23. E! News, which first reported the marriage, said the couple wed over the previous weekend.

Notoriously private, Foster, 51, publicly acknowledged that she's gay during a televised speech at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards, and referred to her "ex-partner in love" Cydney Bernard, with whom she has two sons.

Ending speculations that had dogged her for years, she joked during her acceptance speech of the Cecil B. DeMille Award: "I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age."

Hedison, 44, who dated Ellen DeGeneres about a decade ago, is also an actress. She appeared most recently in Showtime series The L Word, about the lives and loves of a group of gay women.

According to E! News, rumours about the two started streaming through the Internet grapevine last summer when they were photographed at a "technology seminar" at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, and then out at "dinner with friends" a few days later. – Reuters

Filmmaker Peter Jackson reveals that the third film in The Hobbit series now has a new title.

The film formerly known as The Hobbit: There and Back Again has a new title.

Director Peter Jackson announced via his Facebook page Thursday that There And Back Again will now be titled The Battle Of The Five Armies when MGM and Warner Bros release it later this year.

"When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title," Jackson wrote.

"We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate. And so: The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies it is."

Five Armies marks the third and final film in Jackson's Lord Of The Rings prequel trilogy.

Fan site TheOneRing.net reported last week that New Line had registered the title Into The Fire for the next Hobbit installment, along with Five Armies. Jackson also posted that fans of the film's original title may see it "used on a future box-set of all three movies".

The Oscar-winning director is currently editing Five Armies, while also overseeing work on an extended cut of last year's hit, Desolation Of Smaug. According to Jackson, the latter will feature more than 25 minutes of "new scenes, all scored with original music composed by Howard Shore". The Hobbit:Battle Of The Five Armies arrives in theatres Dec 17, 2014. — Reuters